About Elise Blake
Elise Blake is a violinist based in Bloomington, IN starting in Summer 2026. She will be working with the Indianapolis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Washington National Opera Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony during the summer, and will continue to appear in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Washington National Cathedral, and other Washington, DC area performance venues. Blake lived in Washington, DC for many years with her husband David Murray, trombonist in the National Symphony Orchestra, who is now professor of music in trombone at The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. They live near campus with their infant daughter and sister cats Cinnamon and Nutmeg.
